Re: [Haskell-cafe] Mystified by Cabal

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:13:33PM +0100, Svein Ove Aas wrote:

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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Note also that the list of licenses mkcabal offers is wrong. You can get the list from the Cabal lib itself so there is no need to maintain the list manually.

It would also be nice to expand that list somewhat, to at least cover the most used licences - GPL2, GPL3, AGPL, etc.

Why would cabal need a list at all inside of it? It seems very odd to have to upgrade cabal just because I am using a different license. it seems that we should just bite the bullet and switch data License to newtype License = License String and simplify a lot of code to boot as well as create a normalized data layout. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈